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SOME ESSEX SPIDERS.
By J. E. HULL, M.A., D.Sc.
THE list here given is the summing up of captures and
observations made in the late spring of 1929 and 1931,
working from Colchester as a centre. For convenience of
reference I have numbered the various localities as follows:—
1. High Wood, near Colchester. 2. Great Horkesley. 3. Mersea
(3a, a thicket at West Mersea; 3b, tidal grass near the east
end of the Strood). 4. Tiptree Heath. 5. Fordham. 6. Walton-
on-Naze. 7. Colchester.
The most productive of these by far were Nos. 1 and 3, and
the latter the more interesting of the two because the East
Anglian tidal regions have hardly been touched as yet. I found
the tidal drift very rich in species, and I am sure it would well
repay investigation by some one whose physical powers are not
so soon exhausted as mine. Perhaps the most noteworthy species
I met with was Oxyptila simplex, of which I took in a short while
a number exceeding the sum total of all that had been taken